Speaker Hubbard's attorneys seek postponement of ethics trial - Opelika Auburn News
White said the defense team needs more time to “effectively represent Hubbard at trial. “In the conference call of July 22, 2015, this Court expressed its concern that this case would not be ready for trial in October,” White wrote. “The Court noted that in this case ‘it will be like summoning jurors for a capital murder case, as far as the numbers that we’re going to need’ and that the summons will need to be issued 40 to 45 days before trial. “In that conference call, defense counsel agreed with the Court, stating that ‘it is obvious that this case can’t be ready for trial on October the 19th given where we are in the discovery process as we sit here on July the 22nd. ”. White later... In the past two weeks, both sides have filed responses regarding the files, including 26,000 files which were “unable to generate a PDF”, redacted files and files which appear to be missing. “The State’s native file format production has already solved the ‘unable to generate PDF’ file issue,” Acting Attorney General Van Davis stated in a response which was filed on July 24. “The State redacted or withheld materials from its... Source: www.oanow.com
